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40 Stunning Doodles for Inspiration

Steven Snell — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:34:39 +0000

When it comes to art and design sometimes the best way to boost your own creativity is to browse inspirational works of art from others. In this article we’ll showcase 40 examples of amazing doodles. The hand-drawn style is one that can be used in a variety of different ways and on all kinds of different projects. You could incorporate doodled elements in a web design, business card, poster, t-shirt, or just about anything.

The items shown here come from various artists. Most of them are available for larger views at the source, which you can reach by clicking on any of the images or credit links. In some cases, the source will also showcase additional work by the artist.

By balabolka

By Lorrie Whittington

By Catie Cook

By balabolka

By Balabolka

By Ithelda

By JoeyCS

By 00Ratboy

By lei-melendres

By pikajane

By ceesevenmarzartworks

By CrimsonTearDrops319

By Acting-Out

By pikajane

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Student Designer Profile Chris Lissaman University of Derby

Tara: Freelance Designer — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:48:30 +0000

Graphic Design Student Chris Lissaman got in touch with me after seeing another graphic design student interview I did a while back and asked if he could do the same. I liked his work, so said yes.

1. What is you name and Design Portfolio URL?
Name: Chris Lissaman
Portfolio: http://www.facebook.com/ChrisLissamanDesign

2. What you are studying and where?
I’m studying BA(Hons) Graphic Design at the University of Derby, and I’m in my 2nd year.

3. Please could you share some of your favourite pieces of your work and talk me through them?
My projects are all start with a brief, and I research, develop and refine to a final design. The following projects have been set during my 2nd year and range from branding to app design.

Some of my design work:

THE CHILD PRINTER
This is a conceptual direct mail campaign for the children’s wellbeing charity, NSPCC. It was inspired by The Human Printer project, an experiment by QUAD as part of the Format photography festival. I noticed how even the nicest people insult their printer or complain about it despite the work it does and time it saves, and I wanted to highlight that by comparing it to the real abuse children receive.

SKETCHIMALS
This self-written brief challenged me to use graphic design to tackle the issue of children not getting outdoors enough. Children are much more likely than previous generations to be inside the house all day, sat in front of screens such as TV, tablets, and smartphones. My idea was to create and app aimed at children that encouraged them not to use it! After educating youngster on healthy ways to live through a quiz format, the app would then pose challenges – such as to not use the app for the weekend – to be rewarded with in-game coins. This incentivised game-play is what I wanted and I’m really pleased with how the characters look!

NEW LIGHT
The photography department at the University approached the graphic designers with a competition brief to design the visual identity for their end of year exhibitions under the name ‘New Light.’ It was mandatory that would be shown in an A5 photography postcard catalogue, which showcases a photo from every student in a publication that can be given to industry professionals, students, and the general public. My approach was to take the recognisable aperture shape and give it a contemporary feel that is clean, professional and eye-catching. I used this same approach for the cover design and continued it across a number of inside pages.

4. What are your favourite things about your course?
I’d say my favourite thing is that I enjoy the variety in the briefs we are given. Some of them are very particular and need a set outcome such as the photography catalogue, and some are self-written such as the Sketchimals project which I was free to create anything that met the brief.

5. What are your ambitions for the future?
I’d love to work for a graphic design studio, and I’m heading towards branding and corporate identity as an expertise. I’m getting married next summer so I’m looking to find a job straight away or my wife won’t be happy! It excites me to think I’ll be doing what I love for a living.

6. What other artists, designers or illustrators do you admire?
I’ve come across the design studio Ragged Edge Design, headed up by Max Ottigon, and I’m a big fan of their designs. I think it’s the clean and contemporary style that I aspire to create myself.

7. Do you read any design magazines or blogs that you would recommend to other student designers?
I occasionally buy magazines such as Computer Arts if I think a particular issue will help me get to grips with a new technique, but I mainly stick to flicking through the magazines in the University library – it’s cheaper that way! On Twitter I follow design:related (@designrelated) which often posts links to interesting things in the design world.

http://www.facebook.com/ChrisLissamanDesign

40 Beautiful and Minimal WordPress Themes

Steven Snell — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:59 +0000

Finding the right WordPress theme for your website or for a client’s website is not an easy task. Even with the huge selection that is available, if you have some specific things in mind for your site you may find that it’s very difficult to locate a theme that would be a perfect match. In these situations, you may be better off to start with a theme framework or a minimal theme and customize it through the use of a child theme to meet your needs.

In this post we’ll highlight 40 minimal WordPress themes that are worth a look. The themes showcased here are not necessarily bare-bones minimal, but rather they are minimalist in style which often makes it easier to use as a starting point.

Hardy – $49

Hardy is a responsive theme from ThemeTrust. It includes all the necessary functionality for portfolio websites, but it could also be used for a wide variety of other types of sites. It comes with features like column shortcodes, page templates, Google Web Fonts integration, slideshow shortcodes, custom widgets, button shortcodes, a theme options panel, and more.

Hero – $49

Hero is another beautiful and responsive portfolio theme from ThemeTrust. It includes features like a stylish parallax banner, custom widgets, column shortcodes, Google Web Fonts integration, a filterable portfolio, page templates, a theme options panel, and more.

Reveal – $49

Reveal is also from ThemeTrust. It is a responsive portfolio theme with features like an ajax-powered filterable portfolio, Google Web Fonts integration, slideshow shortcode, custom widgets, button shortcodes, page templates, a theme options panel, and more.

Clean – $49

Clean is another responsive theme from ThemeTrust. It is versatile enough to be used for a portfolio, blog, or another type of website. It’s features include column shortcodes, Google Web Fonts integration, slideshow shortcode, custom widgets, button shortcodes, page templates, a theme options panel, and more.

Lucid – $39

Lucid, from Elegant Themes, is a magazine theme that is excellent for creating your own blog or online magazine with a clean and minimalist design style. It comes with five different color schemes, a responsive layout, extensive shortcodes, page templates, and a theme options panel.

Flexible – $39

Flexibile is a portfolio theme from Elegant Themes. While it does feature a filterable portfolio, it could also be used for different types of sites as well. It’s features include a font customizer, unlimited color schemes, a responsive layout, extensive shortcodes, page templates, a theme options panel, and more.

Evolution – $39

Evolution is a responsive theme from Elegant Themes that can be used for portfolios, blogs, corporate sites, and more. Some of it’s primary features include four different color schemes, shortcodes, page templates, and a theme options panel.

Modest – $39

Modest is a minimal theme from Elegant Themes that can be used for portfolios and much more. It includes features like five color schemes, page templates, shortcodes, and a theme options panel.

Minimal - $39

Minimal is a blogging and business theme from Elegant Themes. Its features include two color schemes, shortcodes, page templates, and a theme options panel.

dePosito - €39

dePosito is a minimal and flexible portfolio theme from ThemeShift. It features a responsive design and layout, custom post types, custom post layouts, custom widgets, shortcodes, page templates, and more.

Cleanr - $49

Cleanr, available at Mojo Themes, is a beautiful portfolio and business theme. It uses a responsive layout and its features include a filterable portfolio, post formats, custom backgrounds, custom widgets, page templates, and more.

Supple - $37

Supple is a responsive minimalist portfolio theme available at Mojo Themes. It comes with light and dark color schemes, post formats, custom widgets, shortcodes, and a theme options panel.

Rustik - $59

Rustik is a minimalist ecommerce-ready theme that can be purchased at Mojo Themes. It’s features include Google Web Font integration, Nivo slider, threaded comments, theme options panel, and more.

Gridlocked - $50

Gridlocked is a versatile grid-based theme available at ThemeForest. It comes with light and dark color schemes, a filterable portfolio, a Tumblr-style blog, post formats, page templates, shortcodes, theme options panel, and more.

Classica - $50

Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme for studios and freelancers, available at ThemeForest. Its features include 2 portfolio layouts, custom widgets, page templates, shortcodes, and a theme options panel.

Good Space - $45

Good Space is a responsive theme that can be purchased at ThemeForest. It is intended for use by creative agencies, but could certainly be used for other purposes as well. Its features include unlimited colors, 6 footer layouts, 4 blog styles, 450+ fonts available, drag and drop page builder, shortcodes, and more.

Aware - $45

Aware is a responsive portfolio theme available at ThemeForest. It features an ajax portfolio, custom widgets, shortcodes, and a theme options panel.

Purity - $45

Purity is a responsive business or portfolio theme available at ThemeForest. It is retina ready and includes features like shortcodes, Google Web Fonts integration, unlimited colors, 20 page templates, and a theme options panel.

Garnish - $50

Garnish is a clean ajax-powered portfolio theme available at ThemeForest. Its features include light and dark color schemes, multiple post formats, page templates, shortcodes, and a theme options panel.

The Cotton - $45

The Cotton is a clean and minimal theme that can be purchased at ThemeForest. It comes with features that include unlimited skins, 3 portfolio templates, 3 featured sliders, a powerful admin panel, Google Web Font integration, and more.

Artiste - $50

Artiste is a clean portfolio theme that keeps the focus on your work. It comes with light and dark color schemes, a filterable portfolio, page templates, shortcodes, and a theme options panel.

Sideshow - $50

Sideshow is a minimal theme with a Tumblr-style blog, and it is available at ThemeForest, It’s features include light and dark color schemes, a filterable portfolio, shortcodes, page, templates, a theme options panel, and more.

Spacing - $45

Spacing, available at ThemeForest, is a minimal and responsive theme that can be used for portfolios or business websites. Its features include a homepage builder, unlimited colors, shortcodes, Google Web Font integration, a filterable portfolio, lightbox galleries, a theme options panel, and more.

Skyfashion - $45

Skyfashion is a responsive business and portfolio theme that is for sale at ThemeForest. It comes with features that include custom backgrounds, Google Web Fonts integration, light and dark color schemes, shortcodes, and more.

Basic – free

Basic is a free minimal theme from Themify. It uses a very simple and clean design and layout. It features a responsive layout and comes with a theme options panel that will allow you to customize the design and layout of your site.

Simfo – $39

Simfo is a minimal and responsive theme from Themify. It includes a featured slider, lightbox gallery, post sorting, list view and multiple grid view layouts, 8 theme skins, and more.

ThemeMin – $39

ThemeMin is a minimal typography-focused theme from Themify. Its features include threaded comments, optional homepage slider, lightbox photo galleries, several widget areas, four different color schemes, and more.

Vimes – $69

Vimes, from WPZoom, is intended for design agencies, photographers, and artists, but it is flexible enough to be used simply for blogs as well. It includes a featured slider, portfolio template, custom widgets, custom backgrounds, color csutomization, shortcodes, and more.

Elegance – $69

Elegance is a minimal portfolio theme from WPZoom. It features custom widgets, custom backgrounds, color options, shortcodes, page templates, and more.

Clean – $49

Clean is an aptly-named theme from ThemePure. It is a portfolio theme with features that include 3 homepage templates, multiple portfolio templates, a filterable portfolio, custom widgets, page templates, threaded comments, shortcodes, unlimited colors, Google Web Fonts, and a theme options panel.

Simpler – $49

Simpler, from ThemePure, is a minimal mult-purpose theme. It;s features include 7 unique layouts, multiple portfolio templates, shortcodes, custom widgets, page templates, threaded comments, unlimited colors, Google Web Fonts integration, a theme options panel, and more.

Catchy – $49

Catchy is a clean portfolio theme from ThemePure. It comes with features like smooth portfolio filtering animations, custom widgets, page templates, threaded comments, color options, Google Web Fonts, and a theme options panel.

Exclusy – $35

Exclusy, from Themes Kingdom, is a super clean and responsive portfolio theme. Its features include multiple post formats, Google Maps integration, custom widgets, a color changer, page templates, shortcodes generator, and more.

Exhibit – $35

Exhibit is a minimal grid-based theme from Themes Kingdom. It features a responsive layout, unlimited color options, post formats, Google Maps integration, page templates, custom widgets, and a shortcodes generator.

Widely – free

Widely is a free portfolio theme from Themes Kingdom with a list of features that includes custom widgets, Google Maps integration, shortcodes, page templates, and a theme admin panel

TrulyMinimal – free

TrulyMinimal is a free typography-focused theme from FlareThemes. It features an advanced control panel, page templates, custom widgets, unlimited color options, and more.

Charlton – $49

Charlton, from ThemeFurnace, is a clean and minimal blogging theme. It comes with multiple post formats, font options, Nivo slider, and a theme options panel.

Capiton – $49

Capiton, also from ThemeFurnace, is a minimal theme for portfolios or business websites. It’s features include 4 design styles, a portfolio section, font management, Nivo slider, and a theme options panel.

Simpleton – $35

Simpleton is a responsive theme from MyThemeShop. It features unlimited color schemes, unlimited backgrounds, shortcodes, custom widgets, lightbox galleries, Google Web Fonts integration, and more.

Simple – $35

Simple is another responsive theme from MyThemeShop. Its features include unlimited style schemes, Google Web Fonts integration, multiple layout options, shortcodes, a custom options panel, and more.

For more WordPress themes and resources please see:

Photo Manipulation and Digital Art Inspiration, May, 2013

Rahul Chowdhury — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:06:29 +0000

Welcome to the second article in the new series that showcases inspirational photo manipulations, and here we are back with some amazing works or art that will amaze you once again, as promised. So without wasting any more time, let’s dig in, and see what we have here for this month.

TV Bots

Computer Man

Light Lady

Revealing Identity

Space Expedition

Guitar Imagination

Zebra Formation

Ice Cream Watch

Holding Cup

The Juggler

Golden Man

Erasing Door

Biker Wolf

Skeleton Family

Astronaut on Fire

Speed Lovers

Young vs Old

Thunderbeast

Insect Ride

Road to Victory

Poison Ivy

Well then, we come to the end of this month’s photo inspiration article, and I hope that you have enjoyed this article, so see you next time. Don’t forget to leave in your comments and let us know your thoughts regarding this collection.

About the Author:

This article has been written by Rahul Chowdhury, who is the Founder of Being Creative, which is a place where you can find inspirational pictures like these featured above. Rahul Chowdhury is a blogger and photography fan, who currently expresses his thoughts and creative collections at his blogs.

Free Download: Avatar Icons

Steven Snell — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:40:40 +0000

Today we have a free download that will allow you to create your own custom avatars. The icon elements come in Adobe Illustrator format and you can mix and match various elements to create your own avatar.

These icons were created by Freepik especially for our readers. You can download the set and use them to create your own interesting and unique avatars.

Download the set (1MB zip file)

About the Designer:

Freepik is a search engine tool that helps graphic and web designers to locate high quality free illustrations, vectors, psd and images and download it without copyright infringement. With 1.4 million files it’s the best place on the web to find free resources for designers. The great advantage is that results are displayed in an ordered layout for easy access, according to quality and relevance criteria so you don’t have to waste your time searching all over the Internet for the perfect free resources you need. You get to see the images in thumbnail previews so you don’t have to click all the websites in the search results to decide what to download.

25 Amazing Black and White Photographs

Marc — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:06:43 +0000

Many of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring photographs are in black and white. Although color is an important part of photography and design, sometimes limiting the colors can result in powerful imagery. In this post we’ll showcase 25 different black and white photos for your inspiration and entertainment.

The photos showcased in this post come from a variety of different photographers. Each photo links to the source, so if you want to see more from a particular photographer please follow the links.

Photo credit: Tom Hussey

Photo credit: Martin Stavars

Photo credit: Dhiren Babaria

Photo credit: Pratiksha Suryawanshi

Photo credit: Facundo Garay

Photo credit: Ron Gessel

Photo credit: Gilles Vidal

Photo credit: Birgitte Rubaek

Photo credit: Francesca Solloway

Photo credit: Paul Murphy

Photo credit: Josephine Cardine

Photo credit: Alberto Chollet

Photo credit: F.R.J. Design and Photography

Photo credit: Andrea Serrau

Photo credit: Julien Coquentin

Photo credit: Татьяна Кошутина

Photo credit: Luiza Lehtinen

Photo credit: Christopher Macquet

Photo credit: Josephine Cardin

Photo credit: Marta Varela

Photo credit: Pauline Darley

Photo credit: Barry Yanowitz

Photo credit: Christian

For more inspiration please see:

About the Author:

Marc runs PhotographyPla.net, a website that provides resources for Photographers. Get a free set of Photoshop Actions by subscribing to the PhotographyPla.net newsletter.

The Best WordPress Themes for Churches

Steven Snell — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:02:18 +0000

Many churches in need of a quality website at an affordable price are turning to WordPress. One of the main reasons for this is the number of themes that have been designed and created with the needs of churches in mind. Common features of church themes include things like support for sermon audio and/or video, and event calendar management, which are both important for almost every church website.

WordPress also makes it easy for church staff or volunteers to manage the content of the website, and with features like custom post types, customizable navigation menus, and widgets, WordPress is a practical option for most churches.

Of course, budget is always a factor with churches and other non-profit organizations. WordPress is free to use as a content management system, and some free church themes are also available. Most of the themes designed specifically for churches must be purchased, but with prices ranging from about $40 – $80, the cost is much lower than most other options for church websites.

In this post we’ll take a look at the best free and premium WordPress themes for churches, including some of our own free church themes.

Free WordPress Themes for Churches:

Zion Theme for Churches

Zion is a feature-rich theme for churches that can be downloaded and used for free. It features an adaptive layout, so your visitors will experience a usable site on smartphone and tablets, in addition to desktops. Zion comes with 4 different color schemes. It also includes features like a customizable homepage slider, support for sermon audio and video, an upcoming events list, and a homepage template that can be customized using WordPress widgets. Zion also includes a staff page template.

Stylish Church Theme

The Stylish Church Theme uses a simple, but elegant design style that works well for many churches. It comes with 4 color schemes and you can upload your own logo to customize your site. The theme also includes features like a customizable homepage slider, support for sermon audio files, and an upcoming events list.

Versatile Church Theme

This free theme is called “versatile” because it offers a lot of different options for users. You can customize the colors of almost every element in the design, making it easy to create a site that fits with your church’s branding and identity. You can also upload your own logo, and it gives some options about what content will be displayed on the homepage, using WordPress widgets. The theme includes support for sermon audio and video, and it also includes an upcoming events list. The Versatile Church Theme uses an adaptive layout that provides visitors on positive user experience on smart phones, tablets, and desktops.

Green Grunge Church Theme

With its textured background, the Green Grunge Church Theme is a good fit for churches that want a youthful feel to their website. The theme includes features like a customizable homepage slider, support for sermon audio files, an upcoming events list, and the ability to upload your own logo.

Simple Church Theme

The Simple Church Theme uses a clean and minimalist design that serves as a good style for some churches. It includes features like a customizable homepage slider, support for sermon audio files, an upcoming events list, and the ability to upload your own logo.

Antioch

Antioch is a (kind of) free church theme. A limited free version is available, but the full version starts at $29 and can go up from there depending on the license and support package that you want. Paying users will get features like online giving widgets, a sermon media manager, and a locations manager.

Trinity Theme

Trinity is another (kind of) free theme. Like Antioch, a limited free version can be downloaded, or a full version can be purchased starting at $29. Paying users will get features like online giving widgets, a sermon media manager, and a locations manager.

Premium WordPress Themes for Churches:

If your church is interested in purchasing a premium WordPress theme there are a number of quality options available.

ChurcHope - $45

ChurcHope is a great-looking responsive theme. Its features include options for customizing colors, one-click install, custom widgets, shortcodes, events management, and more.

Risen - $45

Risen is a responsive theme with loads of customization options that make it easy to change the look of your site. Its features include a sermon archive, photo and video gallery, events calendar, staff profiles, and more.

Incarnation – $50

Incarnation features a responsive layout, and a lot of options for customizing the look of the site. You can build your own skin or use one of the 10 pre-defined skins. It offers support for sermon audio and video, an event calendar, a responsive slideshow, multiple post formats, and a template builder that allows you to create unique layouts and page templates.

The Good News – $45

The Good News uses a nice wooden background image. Its features include a responsive layout, events custom post types, sermons custom post type, media custom post type, page templates, and a working contact form.

Nyx Responsive Church WordPress Theme – $45

Nyx is a responsive theme that uses a full-width slider for an impressive look. Its other features include a homepage content manager, event management, audio and video support, 20 page templates, Google Web Font integration, custom widgets, contact form manager, custom post types, and more.

Peacemaker – $45

Peacemaker is a responsive theme with a full-width slider on the homepage. Other features include the ability to customize styles and colors, custom post types, event calendar, custom widgets, over 200 fonts, and more.

Genesis Church – $45

Genesis Church is an impressive and responsive theme. It uses a full-width slider on the homepage. Other features include plenty of customization options, an event manager, photo galleries, and support for sermon audio and video.

Accende – $45

Accende’s features include custom post type for sermons, custom post type for events, custom post type for staff members, custom widgets, multiple page templates, shortcodes, and 5 color schemes.

Heaven’s Corner – $45

Heaven’s Corner’s features include unlimited colors, event management, sermon management, prayer management, photo and video galleries, contact form manager, and more.

Gospel – $45

Gospel is a beautiful responsive theme for churches. It’s features include event management, multiple post formats, 2 homepage styles, full-screen backgrounds, a working contact form, shortcodes, and more.

Glory – $45

Glory’s features include a media-rich homepage slider, the ability to change styles in seconds, photo galleries, video and audio support, event calendar, and a working contact form.

Rebirth – $45

Rebirth’s features include a custom homepage slider, the ability to change styles in seconds, photo galleries, video and audio support, event calendar, and a working contact form.

Born – $45

Born’s features include a unique homepage slider, the ability to change styles in seconds, photo galleries, video and audio support, event calendar, and a working contact form.

Light of Peace – $45

Light of Peace is an older, but still popular, theme for churches. Its features include multiple page templates, a homepage slider, and more.

Ezekiel – $79

Ezekiel is a very well-designed theme with a textured header. Its features include sermon podcasts, news and event management, social media integration, a homepage slider, and more.

Malachai – $79

Malachai is a video-based theme that was created for churches that need a website that is rich in video and media. Its features include a video slider on the homepage, streaming sermons, photo galleries, podcasting, and more.

Micah – $79

Micah is an attractive theme with a light textured background. Its features include sermon podcasts, news and event management, social media integration, a homepage slider, and more.

Moses – $79

Moses comes with 5 different design styles that you can choose.Its features include podcast functionality, event management, and social media integration.

For more WordPress themes please see:

30 Plugins And Tools That Will Improve Your Work And Save You Time

Shock Family — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:50 +0000

Hi everyone. We know it’s always better to keep your attention focused on doing a good job than losing time looking out for resources. That’s why we bring you a handy list of tools and plug-ins to save you time and keep your work going. Enjoy.

Responsive Navigation

Be responsive with this JavaScript plugin that supports touch screens and provides some great user experience due to its outstanding performance. Give it a try.

JQuery Engage, A Better Flow For Blog Readers

This Plug-in displays a toolbar at the bottom of the site whenever the user is done reading an article. As it was designed to engage your readers, the toolbar features different options allowing the user to -for instance- subscribe to a newsletter, leave a comment and share the content on social networks. You’ll install it with ease and will be ready to go within minutes.

Draggabilly Plug-In – Make Elements On Your Site Draggable

So, multi-touch devices are everywhere. This tool will make draggable diverse elements on the site. See for yourself: pretty awesome.

Simple YouTube Menu Effect Tutorial

This tutorial will help you create a drop-down menu as you’ve seen on YouTube.

Sudo Slider JQuery Plugin – Add More Dynamism To Your Pictures

Really nice plug-in that will make your slides dynamic and catchy. You can add videos to be seen in the slider and use a wide variety of effects in the transitions.

DoubleTapToGo – Responsive And Touch-Friendly Drop-Down Menus

A plug-in that will make your drop-down navigation menus responsive and usable in touch and small screens.

Slingpic – Images Sharing Widget

Slingpic is an image sharing tool that will let users share images from your site across different social networks, email, blogs and more. You can customize it and enhance the visitor’s experience.

Mouse Wheel Event In HTML5 – Rediscover Mouse Wheel Functions

This will show you how to use the HTML5 mouse wheel event, making your site more dynamic.

Sly- JQuery Plugin To Showcase Your Portfolios

Try out this JavaScript library for one-directional scrolling with item based navigation support. It’ll work on any browser.

SimplyScroll – Customizable Content Scroller

Here you go, a flexible jQuery content scroller with touch support that you can customize with different automatic or manual animations to scroll any content in any direction.

Picture Tooltip Plug-In – Explain Every Image

This plug-in is compatible with slideshows or sliders and can be customized within minutes to make your pictures more attractive and interactive.

Minimalist WordPress Theme

This theme looks great. It features nice shadow effects, and its white background gives you the chance to use for multiple purposes.

Bespoke.Js – A New Approach To Slides And Presentations

Reinvent your slides with this plug-in that uses keyboard and touch events.

HeapShot JQuery Plug-In – Flip Your Pictures

Flipping animations were never so easy to create. Heapshot is easy to use and customize. You’ll be ready to go within minutes!

Chart.Js – Graphs For Designers And Developers

Nice and colorful graphics that will add that professional plus to any work. You’ll get line, bar, pie and radar charts, among some others. This great graphics have varied customization options.

Simple Slider – JQuery Plug-In

Allows you to slide any type of content, from HTML to text and videos. Works with any CSS.

JQuery Tooltipify

This plug-in will substitute the default browser tooltip and give more action to your site.

Blue Pen Editor – An Online Visual CSS Editor

A really useful one. You get real time editing possibilities and the ability to save every change as you go. Plus, it works pretty well on both dynamic and static websites.

JQuery Plug-In For Displaying Information When Hovering Thumbnails

A perfect Plug-in for e-commerce websites showcasing products or services. When passing over each thumbnail, you’ll see all the info regarding that specific item.

Animated Login Form With JQuery & CSS3

You can customize this attractive login form to run with different animations and make your sites more dynamic.

Full Content – Plug-In For Full Screen Single Page Sites

This Plug-in is all you need to Create fully containers with width and height of window with vertical and horizontal position set. It will also allow you to have scroll animation between containers. Super easy to use.

Weathro – Displays Weather Status For Users

It will get info regarding the geographic location of any user on your site and display the weather status.

Responsive Multi-Level Menu

Try this responsive menu where every submenu fades in and scale up from the back. It will save space and includes subtle animations.

JQuery.Shape Shift – Optimize Your Space

This useful plug-in will organize diverse elements of different sizes in order to optimize the space you have.

Flexnav – A JQuery Plugin For Responsive Menus

This plug-in will show you how to use media queries and JavaScript to make a nice menu with drop downs. It focuses on touch screens.

Tooltipster – A JQuery Plug-In For Attractive Tooltips

This one here is very a very useful.plugin that allows you to create stylish, modern tooltips.

Flatoo – A Modern WP Theme

A Beautiful theme with flat elements and subtle shadows, perfect for tech blogs and magazines.

Snap.Js – Create Facebook-Like Side Menus

This A Library includes great tools for creating mobile shelves/side menus in JavaScript.

Flaunt.Js For Stylish Responsive Navigations With Nested Click-To-Reveal

Using this plug-in you can create a responsive navigation menus. It shows nested navigation items on click-demand, without taking you through to the page.

Pimax 1.0 – Show All Picasa/G+ Albums On Your Site

Pimax will display a photo gallery from your Picasa/G+ albums on your website. Any public album or images added to your G+ account will be reflected on your website with this plugin. Width and height of the widget are customizable.

About the Author:

Shock Family is a team of designers and developers behind projects like: Wp Theme Generator (A great wp themes builder), Jquery Slider Shock (Responsive wp and jquery slider plugin), WordPressThemes Shock (free and premium wp themes) and many more!

10 Of The Most Creative Wine Label Designs

Tara: Freelance Designer — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:30:36 +0000

A guest post by Josh, the social media marketing guru at DBP, a printing company specialising in banners, stickers and labels based in the UK.

There must be thousands of varieties of wine and usually, when you’re looking down the aisles at the supermarket, very few of the labels really stand out. They’re usually quite generic and uninspiring.

However, there are a handful of wine companies who really go that extra mile when it comes to designing and printing labels for their bottles. Here are some of those more creative examples for your inspiration.

1 Oggau Estate

Oggau Estate is one of the most well known wineries in Austria and it’s easy to see why. At Oggau estate, they don’t just make wine, but also add a huge amount of personality to their labels by adding a different character for each bottle. According to Oggau Estate, each character is based on a certain family member (e.g. children, grandparents etc).

Source: Oggau Estate

2 /M/A/S/H

This minimal, yet hugely creative design from the team at /M/A/S/H is named “Return of the Living Red” and it’s easy to see why. Although it might appear quite minimal, the blood-like seal over the cork combined with the attached envelope is all it needs. The envelope contains details about the wine inside the bottle as well as a horror story.

Source: /M/A/S/H

3 – Matsu

Matsu are creators of fine, organic wine and their label designs are certainly creative. There are three designs for each of the three different wines produced by Matsu and the labels each feature a family member (grandfather, father and grandson), portraying the history of the company and its family values without a single word.

Source: Matsu

4 – Logan Weemala

Logan Weemala is an Australian winery based in the Weemala region and their labels have been designed to represent the region where the grapes are grown. Each of the birds on the five variants of wine are common in the area and therefore, portray the history of the wine in a minimalistic, beautiful style.

Source: Logan Weemala

5 – Segreto

These beautiful looking wine bottles are the result of an anniversary label design for the Segreto company. The bottles were very limited in their production but if you were lucky enough to purchase three of them, you can pair them together spell out the name of the company (as pictured). Such a beautiful design.

Source: Segreto

6 – Boarding Pass Shiraz

Many people indulge in a bottle of wine during a long flight and this exceptionally creative label design makes that experience even more fun. The wine label is essentially designed in the style of a boarding pass with essential boarding information replaced with wine information. It looks great and no doubt goes down well onboard.

Source: Boarding Pass Shiraz

7 – Delhaize

These wine labels were produced by a Bulgarian supermarket and were created to reflect the wines country of origin. Corks were used as part of each design and decorated accordingly to represent the various countries with a recognisable icon. For example, South African wine features a cork decorated like an elephant.

Source: Delhaize

8 – B Frank Wine

This label is only half designed for you; you have to do the other half yourself. B Frank Wine allows you to fill in the label yourself and let your co-drinker know why you’re drinking with them. For example, “I’m only drinking with you because…I’m about to fire you and you don’t know it yet”. The design is minimal and makes drinking a great wine even more fun!

Source: B Frank Wine

9 – Lazarus Braille Wine

Although this design might look like nonsense to most people, those that can read Braille will have absolutely no trouble understanding it. The label is printing almost entirely in Braille (although there is an English description near the bottom of the bottle) and although it might look quite mysterious and strange, the design is cool and certainly stands out from the crowd.

Source: Lazarus Wine

10 – TwentyFour

The label for TwentyFour was created by artist, Ben Schiller. Ben is known for creating interesting designs from regular objects and in this case, it’s rubber bands. The result is a minimal, cool looking label that is certainly one of the more creative out there. The name TwentyFour is derived from the circumference of the bottle at exactly 24cm.

Source: Ben Schiller

Author Bio: Josh is the social media marketing guru at DBP, a printing company specialising in banners, stickers and labels based in the UK.

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